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Last week I came across a very disturbing quote on Instagram. It read: “A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate vaginally, but sodomising the child is acceptable. If a man does penetrate and...

The author has chosen to counter violence with something stronger—his art. Do the rest of us have the courage to follow?

On 9 April, the Oslo District Attorney’s Office dismissed the case regarding the attempted murder of publisher William Nygaard, who was shot and seriously injured on 11 October 1993.

When something goes wrong, the finger is often pointed at us. But our work is more crucial than people know, says translator and author Anna Aslanyan

One year after he was attacked at a literary festival, Salman Rushdie is publishing his new novel Victory City in French, translated by Gérard Meudal – who works under his real name, in spite of the fatwa against the author.

Former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie in 1989 over his novel The Satanic Verses. An Iranian organisation also put a bounty on his head, raising it to $2.5 million in 1997 and to $3.3 million in 2012.

Salman Rushdie has spoken out for the first time since an Islamic terror attack in New York prompted by an old Iranian fatwa nearly killed him

Salman Rushdie has spoken out for the first time since an Islamic terror attack in New York prompted by an old Iranian fatwa nearly killed him

Salman Rushdie has spoken out for the first time since an Islamic terror attack in New York prompted by an old Iranian fatwa nearly killed him

Still recovering from a stabbing in August, the author won’t be doing in-person events